How to find and use Spotify's new 'Only You' feature to get a musical astrology reading and see your unique tastes
- Spotify's new "Only You" feature shows how unique your listening tastes are and gives you a musical astrology reading.
- Only You compares your favorite artists and genres and shows you combinations of your listening habits that stand out from Spotify's user base.
- You can find Only You in Spotify's iPhone and Android apps, along with a hub of unique playlists.
At the end of each year, Spotify releases a personalized playlist called "Spotify Wrapped" that shows you what your favorite songs of the year were. It's always a fun way to see how your tastes changed and rediscover songs you might have forgotten.
Every so often Spotify will come out with a similar personalized feature. This time, it's unveiled the "Only You" page.
Only You compares all the songs and artists you have saved and notes which ones are the most different from one another, and which combinations set you apart from other users. Spotify claims it's done this by analyzing every user's music tastes and picking out the songs or artists that you listen to together, but no one else does.
For example, if you listen to both heavy metal and classical baroque pieces, that might show up.
You'll also get a faux astrology reading and a page where you can find special playlists made just for you.
Here's how to find and share your personalized Only You list.
How to find and use Spotify's Only You feature
You can find Only You in either of Spotify's smartphone apps for iPhone and Android. Before anything, make sure that the app is fully updated.
1. Open the Spotify app and log into your account if you haven't already.
2. If you haven't seen Only You before, it might pop up automatically, or on your Home tab. Otherwise, tap Search at the bottom of the screen.
3. Underneath the search bar, you should see a pop-up labeled Find out how you listen. Tap this.
Important: Eventually, the Only You story feature will leave this page. Once it's gone, you'll be able to find it by searching for Only You and tapping it when it appears as a "Genre."
4. Your Only You list will start playing. Either wait for each page to pass, or tap the right side of the screen to progress.
5. On the seventh page, you'll be asked to plan your "Dream Dinner Party" - you can select three artists you like, and Spotify will make you playlists of their most popular songs, and songs by artists like them. Tap Add Mixes to Your Library to save the playlists.
6. When you're done, you'll be shown every page in the Only You slideshow. Tap Share under any page, and you can send it to a friend or another app.
The Only You hub
Once you've gone through your Only You slideshow once, you'll gain access to the full Only You hub. You can open the Only You hub by searching the words Only You and picking it when it pops up as a Genre, or by tapping the Only You tab under Browse all on the Search page.
Here, you can listen to all your Dinner Party playlists, playlists based on your favorite genres, and mixes with songs from every decade that you listen to.
At the bottom of the page, under the Made for two heading, you'll also see Spotify Blend. Blend is a beta feature that lets you connect with a friend and make a playlist with songs that both of you love (or might love). Tap the big plus icon and invite a friend to get started.
Your Blend playlist is updated every day, and will grow over time as both of you listen to new music and artists.
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